Single Season Home Run Leader with Fewest RBIs?

[packs]

Right now Mike Trout currently leads all of baseball with 10 hone runs. However, he only has 14 RBIs to go along with them.

I was wondering, who has led the league (AL/NL or both) in home runs with the fewest RBIs?

I saw Killebrew led all of baseball with 45 home runs and drove in 96 runs in 1963. I think that makes him the current leader but I'm not sure if there's another.

[cgjackson222]

Originally Posted by packs

Right now Mike Trout currently leads all of baseball with 10 hone runs. However, he only has 14 RBIs to go along with them.

I was wondering, who has led the league (AL/NL or both) in home runs with the fewest RBIs?

I saw Killebrew led all of baseball with 45 home runs and drove in 96 runs in 1963. I think that makes him the current leader but I'm not sure if there's another.

Damn, 14 RBIs and 10 HRs seems hard to do.

Kiner tied for the League lead in HRs in 1952 with 37, but only had 87 RBIs.

Of course if you go back to pre-Babe Ruth, you can find lower HR/RBI totals.

[Cliff Bowman]

Kyle Schwarber has Killebrew beat, he led the NL with 46 home runs in 2022 with 94 RBI’s.

[G1911]

The 63 Twins went 91-79

The 52 Pirates went 42-112.

I’m surprised Killebrew’s season is in competition as he was on a very good team that year that scored plenty of runs. First place in batting average and second in on base.

[packs]

Neither led the league, but both Cedric Mullins (2021, Kyle Schwarber (2017) and Curtis Granderson (2016) all managed to hit 30 home runs with only 59 RBIs.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by G1911

The 63 Twins went 91-79

The 52 Pirates went 42-112.

I’m surprised Killebrew’s season is in competition as he was on a very good team that year that scored plenty of runs. First place in batting average and second in on base.

Looks like Harmon hit .239 with men on base and .233 with runners in scoring position that year. He hit 27 solo HR's, no Grand Slams and 4 3-run HR's.

Don't know if any of that is typical or not, but looks weaker then most of his other good years. His efficiency and clutch stats were pretty weak in 1963 compared to most of his other seasons, for whatever reason. Most statisticians would probably say it's just a random anomaly.

Biggest reason he's likely on this list, I noticed he also missed like 20 games that season. He plays 10-15 more games or so, he's not mentioned in this thread...clutch hitting or not.

Harmon never hit 50 HR's, but he came soooo close a bunch of times, mostly during pitching dominant years. His Home/Road splits are nearly identical to....so it wasn't home cooking for him.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Looks like Harmon hit .239 with men on base and .233 with runners in scoring position that year. He hit 27 solo HR's, no Grand Slams and 4 3-run HR's.

Don't know if any of that is typical or not, but looks weaker then most of his other good years. His efficiency and clutch stats were pretty weak in 1963 compared to most of his other seasons, for whatever reason. Most statisticians would probably say it's just a random anomaly.

Biggest reason he's likely on this list, I noticed he also missed like 20 games that season. He plays 10-15 more games or so, he's not mentioned in this thread...clutch hitting or not.

Harmon never hit 50 HR's, but he came soooo close a bunch of times, mostly during pitching dominant years. His Home/Road splits are nearly identical to....so it wasn't home cooking for him.

I’m sure it was just bad luck, but it’s a lot of bad luck to be in competition for this distinction while playing on a team that was 1/2 in the league in getting on base and setting up opportunities to score. Kiner is the kind of guy I would expect, a really good long ball hitter but who played on a team that was offensively dead aside from him.

If Killebrew played in any other era than the 60’s that held down batting averages so much, he would get a lot more respect. That .256 really holds down how he is seen, I think. I love picking up him, McCovey, the B tier of HOF superstars of that period that are so, so much less than the Aaron/Mays/Mantle tier.

[philliesfan]

Right now Tyler O'Neil has 9 homers with 12 rbi's